Embers of Embers

Chapter 185
Everything in the past is being recalled in a trance. Seliu knows about this state. He said in a certain translation from Jiuxia that this phenomenon is called revolving door. It is probably a process of reviewing one's life before death, both good and bad. Go through it again.
Like the tide, it overflowed Seliu little by little, pushing all the forgotten things ashore.
From the day he was born, the world was gray until that day when Seleu held the stone tightly.
She smashed the man as if she was smashing her own destiny, so she opened the door, and a lunatic broke into this gray world. He found it quite monotonous. He not only suggested planting some green plants, but also recommended himself Keep some fish.
"Real life is so miserable, we have to enrich our spiritual world, right?"
That's what he said at the time.
So the weed named Lorenzo Holmes grew all over the gray world, causing the flowers to wither before they could grow...
Ah, why did my thinking become crazy even after I died?
Seliu gave an ugly smile. This ghost had such a great influence on him. Should I say that his true colors were revealed?
But anyway, no one will find out.
So everything fell silent, and it was not until a few seconds later that her hearing slowly returned to Seriu. All those delayed voices were poured into her ears in an instant, and overlapped together, almost tearing her mind apart.
The expected death did not come, or in other words, the God of Death came, but it did not bring death to Seleu.
"Lorenzo..."
Seleu was a little afraid to watch that scene.
As the blazing fireworks burned, Lorenzo had the chance to kill her, making Lawrence's attempt fail, but in the end the sword was directed elsewhere.
"I thought you would be more vigilant for a while?"
Lorenzo tried his best to raise the sword, but it was difficult to do so.
"You're really cunning."
Lawrence praised with anger.
At the last moment, he came with a hurricane-like sword force and tore the car door directly, and a cold light appeared.
Lorenzo held up one nail sword, but the second nail sword hit him at an angle that was difficult to defend. It penetrated the wound on Lorenzo's waist and abdomen, worsening the wound again.
"Then do you think there will be a bunch of incendiary bombs here that can burn you to death?"
Lorenzo responded with a chuckle. He seemed calmer than ever before, but in fact he was in a trance after losing blood. The side effects of the overdose of Florent's potion had already manifested, and his iron will would collapse.
"I won't give you another chance!"
"Don't be so sure. Just like you said, I'm a cunning guy."
Lorenzo fought hard to shake off the nail sword, and his tired body burned again. This time Lorenzo could not retreat. He would not even have a chance to fight. Seleucus was behind him. Once Lawrence broke through, everything would be over. All lose.
"Actually, I'm starting to wonder what kind of mentality you have to challenge me, revenge?"
Lawrence shouted while swinging his sword.
Lorenzo had no chance of winning in a head-on battle, but this madman still planned all of this. He almost killed Lawrence, but now he should give up, and even said to kill Seleu and turn around and run away, but he seems to have regretted it. Same, stay here.
"It's probably the kind of mentality that since I'm not comfortable living, don't think about it... everyone will die together."
Lorenzo's fragile spirit has made it impossible for him to say anything harsh, and the nature of his psychosis has emerged, and he talks nonsense.
A dazzling sword light flashed, and his instinct drove him to swing the sword, but it was full of flaws.
"So you're going to take your friends and die with you?"
Lawrence scoffed.
He originally thought that Lorenzo would hide Seleu in that steel fortress, but in the end, he took her to this deserted desperate situation alone. Lorenzo did a really good job, he calculated everything, and he was far away Success is just a short step away.
Lorenzo did not expect the powerful vitality of the Holy Grail...the sleeping face was about to open its eyes.
"After all, brothers who have become brothers don't want to be born in the same year and the same day, but they want to die in the same year and the same day!"
Lorenzo said and glanced at Seleu behind him, but the girl's expression didn't look like she wanted to recognize him as a brother.
The nail sword slashed for the last time, it finally couldn't support this high-intensity fight, it shattered, and under the shattered blade, Lawrence pierced Lorenzo's arm with his sword and nailed him to the side of the carriage .
The demon hunter looked ferocious, and with almost no time to rest, he pulled his arm and directly penetrated the nailed sword, then pulled it out and slashed at Lawrence again.
In the small carriage, the rain of swords started again, the sharp sword blades roared, and the high-frequency screams were like thunder.
The injury caused a human to die countless times, but for the demon hunters, they could still continue. The sinful secret blood continued to repair the broken body, removing the human part and filling it with the power of the demon. enter.
This was a forbidden exchange, but Lorenzo already knew it.
Just like the equivalent exchange in alchemy, if you ask for power, you will have to bear the price.
"It's time to finish, Lorenzo."
Lawrence said coldly, as if he was sentencing him to death.
His figure became swift in an instant, and he swung the nail sword in his hand, piercing Lorenzo's joints like the execution spike. The next moment, he reached back to his waist, took out the other nail sword, penetrated it, and so on.
At first Lorenzo was still able to resist, but soon he could not keep up with the continuous offensive, and was unable to be penetrated by the nail sword. As if he was a victim, several nail swords staggered and sealed his body, Finally, he was locked in place.
It was a cage sealed by the sword. Lorenzo couldn't even break free with force, which would be equivalent to cutting himself into pieces.
"Don't worry, you will survive."
Holding the last spiked sword in his hand, Lawrence looked at the bewildered witcher and declared his victory.
He will not kill Lorenzo. There are many secrets about Lorenzo, not only his identity, but also the strange power in Lorenzo's mind. All these are very attractive to Lawrence, not to mention this body. Once damaged, Lorenzo's body would be a perfect shell.
Lorenzo lowered his head as if dead. The holy silver on the nailed sword brought great pain, and blood flowed down along the front as if it was endless.
Lawrence slowly turned around and looked at the girl on the other side.
Seliu retreated little by little until she finally leaned against the wall of the carriage. She had no way out.
The demon-like old man came slowly, his face was expressionless, and the flesh and blood on his chest was slowly moving. I don't know if it was an illusion or something. Seliu even saw that the eyes on the sarcoma had just opened slightly for a moment.
"I really didn't expect the situation to be so complicated in the end, it's obviously very simple."
He said with some annoyance, then grabbed Seliu's hair with his big hands and lifted her up forcefully.
The girl couldn't even scream. The horrible erosion invaded her mind at the moment of contact, corroding her mind.
"You...you've always been there."
Seleu struggled in pain and said.
She saw strange scenes, and a strange feeling connected her with Lawrence.
"Yeah, the beacon is always there."
Lawrence had already hit the beacon during the first attack, and Seleu was the bright light, clearly visible in the darkness.
Lawrence slowly closed his eyes. What he has to do now is to spread the erosion through Seleucus. With the blessing of the Holy Grail, he can instantly plant beacons on all the people who swear an oath to the Stuart family. , after success, if he wanted to, he could paralyze half of the old Dunling in an instant.
This memetic pollution, which is difficult for ordinary people to understand, is a very abstract concept. It can be spread through any relevant medium. You can even understand it as... spread of ideas.
Sometimes Lawrence even felt that the word "witcher" itself was a memetic pollution, which infected all desperadoes and made them fight against monsters.
"The carnival...has begun."
Lawrence took a step further towards his great ideal, so the dark night sky was about to be lit up by him.
With Seliu as the hub, the power of erosion begins to spread like a virus, constantly jumping back and forth between different [gaps]. It will spread slowly at first, but after a period of time it will grow exponentially. , he could already foresee that shaky day.
Driven by this power, the tumor on the chest also came to life. It had human features, just like the head growing on Lawrence's body. At this moment, it opened its eyes, which were blank and blank.
Like a baby that was awakened, it screamed hoarsely. In an instant, more intense erosion spread, and the weird pressure contaminated all life within the range.
The body shriveled up in an instant, and the boiling heat cooled down. Lawrence seemed to have aged dozens of years, and all his vitality was sucked out by the weird face on his chest, which continued to eat Lawrence himself like a parasite.
This is the price of power. The more he accepts the gift of the Holy Grail, the faster Lawrence and this strange flesh and blood will melt, and he will lose himself.
But then something strange happened.
Lawrence clearly noticed that the power of erosion was limited, or that it had been extended to the limit, but instead of swallowing hundreds or thousands of people as expected, there were only a few people.
"what happened?"
He slowly opened his eyes, trying to find out what was going on, but soon a small wound stretched out on his arm.
The girl glared at him in pain.
Seleu clenched her "stone" and swung the dagger she had hidden under her pillow.
There is no holy silver that has the power to suppress demons, and there is no special metal that purifies the mechanism. This is just an ordinary dagger, and the structure of it is ordinary iron.
But it was such a mortal thing that hurt Lawrence again. He seemed to be a little unresponsive, and then he became furious as if he was humiliated.
He slammed Seliu to the ground so hard that Lawrence couldn't even figure out which part went wrong, but then gunfire rang out again, and a wound the size of a fist exploded in his chest.
His thoughts almost stopped, he turned his head and roared angrily.
"Lorenzo!"
The demon hunter was seen standing in a pool of blood with injuries all over his body. Several of the nailed swords that trapped him had been removed. There was no more blood flowing, as if all the blood had been drained. His face was pale.
It’s hard to imagine how this demon hunter stayed awake and survived until now. Lawrence couldn’t even imagine how he still had the strength to fight back.
"Sure enough, when [the gap] travels, your consciousness does not exist in the main body...which means you are not aware of your surroundings."
Lorenzo said in a low voice, this was the conclusion he reached when he and Lawrence fought in the [Gap] for the first time, his eyes were cold, even in such a desperate situation, he was still looking for opportunities.
"I know a very good doctor who can reattach limbs even if they are cut off."
That kind of injury was not enough to kill Lawrence. He gripped the nail sword and walked towards Lorenzo.
Lorenzo reluctantly raised his head, as if he was laughing at him. Immediately, severe pain was released from the bullet hole in his chest, and countless tentacles were waving at the ends of the flesh. They tried to heal, but they were like being Something suppressed the general, unable to heal, and bleeding.
"This is one of the few holy silver bullets I have, and it missed."
Seeing Lawrence stopped in pain, Lorenzo dropped the Winchester in his hand. The eroding pressure made it difficult for him to aim.
Lorenzo used his remaining holy silver to make two holy silver bullets... These were specially prepared for Lawrence, one for the head and one for the heart, but he had already missed one.
Lawrence covered the wound, and the remaining holy silver brought a severe burning sensation... He was almost killed by Lorenzo again.
Swinging the nail sword, he was not going to give Lorenzo any chance. For the first time, Lawrence felt fear in this strange witcher.
It's time to end.
"Little Nightingale?"
But at this moment Lorenzo suddenly said.
Seleu raised her head in the darkness. She couldn't see clearly Lorenzo's appearance. He was like a worn-out scarecrow, propped up by a nailed sword.
"Little Nightingale! Things like red roses are actually really stupid."
Lorenzo said with some restraint.
He looked into the dark corner and knew very well that the little nightingale was there.
"The big tree is coming."
Lorenzo said weakly, but the next moment the dying man burst out with incredible strength, and his body forcibly broke away from the blockade of the nailed sword. He stepped on the wall hard, and instead used the force to hit Lawrence.
Like a wild beast, there is no way out, but such madness actually suppressed Lawrence for a short time. White light suddenly appeared and hit the flesh and blood body. Lawrence soon regained the initiative and used two nails. The sword slashed directly on Lorenzo's shoulder, and it seemed that he could break it with more force.
Lorenzo seemed to feel no more pain, and he muttered to himself.
"Time is up."
The pocket watch fell from his arms and fell to the cold ground.
All the madness is visible in the eyes, the whistle blows through the wind and snow, and burning embers pour out of the combustion chamber like red snowflakes.
The train suddenly accelerated and shook violently. Lorenzo supported Lawrence and pushed him up hard.
This psycho is still yelling.
"So, fly high, little nightingale."
These were Lorenzo's last words. In the darkness, Seleu saw Lorenzo pushing Lawrence out of the carriage. He didn't know where the power came from. He waved the nail sword crazily and fell heavily, cutting off the space between the carriages. Connection.
Everything happened almost instantaneously. Perhaps because of the erosion, Seliu was still a little unclear about what happened. It wasn't until the carriage slowed down and Lorenzo completely disappeared into the blizzard that Seliu stood up slowly. up.
The dull face began to melt, and she became frightened, and then walked out trembling uncontrollably. She looked at the direction in which she disappeared. The snowstorm was very heavy, and the traces of the passing train were covered up in a short time. Then Seliu looked arrive.
A light shines in the blizzard. It falls from the sky and burns the whole night with scarlet.
(End of this chapter)